TypeSHED11 

Currently in progress: A collaboration between Typevents LLP in Europe and Catherine Griffiths. We are organising an international typography symposium for February 2009: TypeSHED11, to be held in Wellington, New Zealand. Part of this project involves a visual identity for TypeSHED11.

Typography, across five stretched out summer days on the water's edge. Zero in on Wellington, an urban landscape, 42-degrees below, bottom of the South Pacific, a tiny capital port city, to a redeveloped ex-cargo store, Shed 11. TypeSHED11 is set to explore the notions and voices of typography - no matter how small or vocal, how grand or local - across the disciplines, in graphic design and advertising, photography, film, literature, architecture, music, the visual arts - and beam it back out to the rest of the world via Typeradio. A full programme constructed from lectures, workshops, exhibitions and experimental installations will create the possibility for social and intellectual exchange with passionate typographers and designers from about the world - Europe, the Americas, Asia, Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. Five exceptional guest speakers (to be announced) will punctuate three days of presentations, followed by two days of workshops - all under the one roof at Shed 11 - encircled by satellite events, forums and panels for discussion and debate, evening projections and entertainment. Refreshments each day, a picnic on the wharf, and a cocktail evening will offer the prospect to learn, mix and meet at New Zealand's first ever TypeSHED11, Wellington, New Zealand, 11-15 February 2009.

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